BloodSpell: Feature Length
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- Publication date
- 2007
- Topics
- Strange Company, Hancock, Hugh, Bloodspell, Punk, Fantasy, Neverwinter Nights, Bioware
- Publisher
- Strange Company
- Language
- UK English
- Item Size
- 2.9G
BloodSpell is the unique animated "punk fantasy" feature film by Machinima pioneers Strange Company, made available in its entirety for viewing online under Creative Commons.
In the world of BloodSpell, some people are infected with magic in their blood. When that blood is spilled, the magic is released, to harm or heal. When Jered, a young monk trained to hunt the Blooded, realises he has magic in his own blood, he must flee into the slums and magical hideouts of the Blooded, pursued by the Church of the Angels who trained him.
"There's some damned fine storytelling and editing/production work here" - Cory Doctorow, author and blogger
"Blood, Angels and loads of vicious smiting: what more could you ask for?" - Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night.
""A movie that defies most of the rules of traditional film-making." - The Guardian
What should I download?
This one's fairly simple. If you're on a PC (and you've not done something funky like messing around with the gamma settings), you'll get the best viewing experience from the DivX version:
Download DivX for PC here
If you're on a Mac, you'll probably have the best viewing experience from the Quicktime version:
Download Quicktime for Mac here
In the world of BloodSpell, some people are infected with magic in their blood. When that blood is spilled, the magic is released, to harm or heal. When Jered, a young monk trained to hunt the Blooded, realises he has magic in his own blood, he must flee into the slums and magical hideouts of the Blooded, pursued by the Church of the Angels who trained him.
"There's some damned fine storytelling and editing/production work here" - Cory Doctorow, author and blogger
"Blood, Angels and loads of vicious smiting: what more could you ask for?" - Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night.
""A movie that defies most of the rules of traditional film-making." - The Guardian
What should I download?
This one's fairly simple. If you're on a PC (and you've not done something funky like messing around with the gamma settings), you'll get the best viewing experience from the DivX version:
Download DivX for PC here
If you're on a Mac, you'll probably have the best viewing experience from the Quicktime version:
Download Quicktime for Mac here
Credits
Director/Writer/Producer: Hugh Hancock
Technical Director: Steve Wallace
Sound Engineering and Design: Phil Rice
Lead Editor: Ross Bambrey
Lead Filming: Ben Sanders
1st Assistant Director: Johnnie Ingram
Lead Animator: Justin Hall
Jered: Thom Tuck
Carrie: Charmaine Gilbert
Gad: Alan Cross
Arianne: Caroline Dunford
The Master: Paul AJ Hamilton
For full list of credits see movie credit roll.
- Contact Information
- Email: info@bloodspell.com Web page: <a href="http://www.bloodspell.com">BloodSpell.com</a>
- Addeddate
- 2007-10-21 11:38:47
- Color
- color
- Director
- Hugh Hancock
- Identifier
- BloodSpell_Feature_Film
- Run time
- 1:24:00
- Sound
- sound
- Year
- 2007
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Reviews
(2)
Reviewer:
jahzoone
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favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite -
July 5, 2009
Subject: Great Animation
Subject: Great Animation
Great animation and a cool story too, good vs. evil...
Reviewer:
Arch Stanton
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March 29, 2008
Subject: Worth seeing
Subject: Worth seeing
A distillation of the long series also available as a download on this site, Bloodspell is one of the longer Mechas here, being in this version a fully
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fledged feature, able to stand in its own right. Set in a land where the spilling of their own blood creates magic to those gifted which such powers, and originating from the United Kingdom, the film has a English accented cast throughout and works very well on its own account, needing no prior knowledge of the source episodes to enjoy it. It also features one of the more interesting heros of the Mecha genre, the bald headed Jered who, with the one armed Scouser Ged (at first his nemesis), becomes something of an endearing character as matters proceed. Jered is more than an muscle bound action cipher common to the fantasy genre, and it is to the maker's credit that some emotionality is suggested below the 2 or 3 expressions the Mecha process grants their hero's regularly impassive face. Its necessarily clunky visual notwithstanding, Bloodspell succeeds throughout in being cinematic in conception, with excellent editing, pacing and some memorable, if somewhat idiocyncratic, dialogue added to a real sense of place. Recommended.
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